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Nebulas
Poems that look at our little world from space
In Nebulas, Meghan Kemp-Gee positions these giant clouds of glowing space dust, often the “nursery” where new stars and planets are born, in an interconnected web of lyric form. As dazzling masses of matter and energy, fleeting, exploding and collapsing, creating connection across incomprehensible distances, these poems use constellations and light-years to reconfigure how art, mortality, loss, death, and afterlives are miraculous echoes and patterns in a gorgeous, chaotic universe.
Included in this dazzling collection are an extraterrestrial fox who works at a gas station, meditations about living across from a hospital during the Omicron surge, weathering climate disasters in North Vancouver, strange deep-sea ecosystems, conversations with a space-god who may be Walt Whitman, and multiple retellings of a Zen koan about tigers and strawberries. Here, respiration and repetition — literally, verse — acts as an outstanding formal feature, a way of creating connections and shared breath across spacetime.
In Nebulas, Meghan Kemp-Gee positions these giant clouds of glowing space dust, often the “nursery” where new stars and planets are born, in an interconnected web of lyric form. As dazzling masses of matter and energy, fleeting, exploding and collapsing, creating connection across incomprehensible distances, these poems use constellations and light-years to reconfigure how art, mortality, loss, death, and afterlives are miraculous echoes and patterns in a gorgeous, chaotic universe.
Included in this dazzling collection are an extraterrestrial fox who works at a gas station, meditations about living across from a hospital during the Omicron surge, weathering climate disasters in North Vancouver, strange deep-sea ecosystems, conversations with a space-god who may be Walt Whitman, and multiple retellings of a Zen koan about tigers and strawberries. Here, respiration and repetition — literally, verse — acts as an outstanding formal feature, a way of creating connections and shared breath across spacetime.
128 pages, Paperback
Published May 19, 2026
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June 20, 2026
4.5 rounded up.
A Deep Breath in the Medusa Nebula, Fifteen Hundred Light-years Away is my favorite poem in this collection, it's phenomenal and I can't stop going back to re-read it.
This is a very beautiful collection, I really enjoyed the poems, the blend of spec and lit, the parallels between cosmic phenomena and intimate, everyday routine and events. The reason it loses .5 stars is that the poet clearly some favorite lines that are reused across a few poems: when the poems are read individually, or across several magazines, for example, this is a fun eater egg or even a writer's signature, but when the poems are gathered in a collection like this it creates a bit too much repetition.
A Deep Breath in the Medusa Nebula, Fifteen Hundred Light-years Away is my favorite poem in this collection, it's phenomenal and I can't stop going back to re-read it.
This is a very beautiful collection, I really enjoyed the poems, the blend of spec and lit, the parallels between cosmic phenomena and intimate, everyday routine and events. The reason it loses .5 stars is that the poet clearly some favorite lines that are reused across a few poems: when the poems are read individually, or across several magazines, for example, this is a fun eater egg or even a writer's signature, but when the poems are gathered in a collection like this it creates a bit too much repetition.
July 22, 2026
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Loved this collection of poems. It's unique and dazzling. These poems are about humanity, the natural world, climate change, daily life, science, space and so much more. These poems are so imaginative and beautiful. I'm excited to read more from her.
#gifted @coachhousebooks
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Loved this collection of poems. It's unique and dazzling. These poems are about humanity, the natural world, climate change, daily life, science, space and so much more. These poems are so imaginative and beautiful. I'm excited to read more from her.
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